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SCREEN TUTOR HIGHLIGHTS |
Tutor
Bios for Metro Screen as at 08.02.07
Cate
Shortland
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Shortland’s
first feature film ‘Somersault’ won her an AFI,
ASDA Award, FCCA award and IF Award for Best Direction.
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Carolyn
Johnson
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Carolyn
Johnson: Carolyn’s first feature film Son of a Lion
premiered at the Pusan International Film Festival in October
2007. She has also produced award-winning short films.
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Dean
Francis
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Dean
has directed many shorts with his film ‘Vermin’
premiering at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival in the Czech Republic.
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Heather
Oxenham
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Feature
producer: ‘Erskineville Kings’, ‘Kiss or
Kill’ to name a few, her short ‘Sexy Thing’,
was in the official selection for Cannes 2006.
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John
Janson-Moore
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John
Janson-Moore is a writer, director and producer of documentaries,
drama and experimental films. His films have screened internationally
on television and on the festival circuit.
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Adrian
Rostirolla
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Adrian
is a film Editor with feature credits such as Kokoda, Gabriel,
Bomb Harvest (doco),The Nothing men and Coffin Rock. He has
also edited the Oscar nominated film
Birthday Boy and the AFI nominated shorts Small Boxes and
The Ground Beneath.
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Monica Davidson
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Monica
Davidson is a filmmaker and writer who’s never had a
proper job. She founded Freelance Success, providing business
skills training for creative freelancers.
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Karel
Segers
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Producer
Karel Segers’ credits include shortfilms, a documentary
http://www.ozzywood.com/film-production/ozzywood-documentary-return-to-port-davey.htm
and two features. He is a leading story and script consultant.
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Jonathan
Wald
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Jonathan is a film director, writer, editor, and script editor, whose shorts have played at over 200 festivals; he's also an awarded theatre director.
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Mark Piper
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Mark
Piper is an award winning Director who has directed over 400
hours of television drama including Home and Away, Always
Greener, Water Rats and All Saints. Full bio can be found
at http://www.markpiper.com
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| Tutor
Bios for Metro Screen as at 08.02.07 |
Carolyn
Johnson (Producing for Film
and TV)
Following a career in merchant banking, Carolyn moved into
film production in 1993. She is an AFTRS graduate, who has
produced six award winning short films, and worked as a producer,
production manager and script editor in television documentary
and drama. Along with a TV drama and documentary in development,
Carolyn currently has her first feature film in post-production. |
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Heather
Oxenham (Production
Management and 1st AD Intensive)
Heather has twenty years of extensive experience in the industry
on both commercial and independent productions. Her feature
film credits include Erskineville Kings, Kiss or Kill, Floating
Life and Sebastian and the Sparrow to mention just a few.
She has worked alongside some of Australia’s finest
Directors including; Bill Bennett, Rolfe de Heer and Scott
Hicks. Sexy Thing, produced by Heather, was in the official
selection for competition at Cannes Film festival 2006. Heather
is currently the Line Producer on All Saints with projects
in development in both Australia and the US. |
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Bonnie
Elliott
Bonnie Elliott works as a Cinematographer, Camera Operator,
and Focus Puller. In 2006 she won four Silver ACS Australian
Cinematography awards. Bonnie's credits include Fireflies,
Somersault, Pizza Live, Mr Patterns and many TVCs, music video
clips and short films including the recent Smile for Me funded
by the NSW FTO and Transient, winner of Best Short and Audience
Award at the 2005 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and Audience
Award at the 2005 Mardi Gras Film Festival. Bonnie recently
attended the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Talent
Campus, being one of only 500 emerging young filmmakers from
around the word invited. Bonnie has also worked on many of
Metro Screen’s mentorship films and is currently completing
a Master of Arts in Cinematography at the Australian Film
Television Radio School. |
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Ross
Tesoriero (Flash Fundamentals)
Ross Tesoriero studied Visuals Arts at COFA UNSW, completing
his degree in 1996. He has operated as an illustrator, animator
and web designer for the last 10 years and creates online
flash animation, web sites and magazine cartoons in both freelance
and full-time employment. In 1998 he began working with Macromedia
Flash as an animation and multimedia application, Flash quickly
became the development tool of his choice. Ross is experienced
in the fields of CD-ROM Production, 2D Digital animation,
Game and Interactive scripting, Dynamic website design and
development. Currently he spends his time developing online
communications based applications and teaching a post-graduate
digital animation course. |
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Alec
Morgan (Advanced Screenwriting)
Alec Morgan is an experienced screenwriter and filmmaker whose
productions have screened on ABCTV and internationally. His
recent feature Hunt Angels, screened in cinemas in 2006, was
nominated for four AFI awards and screened at Parliament house.
Other credits include the multi-award winning Lousy Little
Sixpence (1984), Admission Impossible (1993) and The End Of
The Earth (1990), winner of the Gold Medal for Best Environmental
Film at the 1990 New York Film Festival. Alec’s short
film writing and directing credits include Old Fella Now (1980),
winner of Best Short Film at the Adelaide Film Festival and
Dusty Hearts (1990), winner of Best Short Film at the 1991
Asia-Pacific film festival. Alec has been twice nominated
for an AWGIE Award for his scripts. |
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John
Janson-Moore (Documentary Making Intensive and Documentary
Production Pathways)
John Janson-Moore is a writer, director and producer of documentaries,
drama and experimental films. A graduate of the Australian
Film Television
& Radio School (AFTRS), John's films have screened at
international festivals and with broadcasters around the world.
After receiving support from the Australian Film Commission,
the NSW Film and Television Office, the Japan Foundation and
the Sundance Institute (USA), his film, 'Kidnapped!', screened
on SBS TV and premiered at the International Documentary Festival
Amsterdam (IDFA) in competition for the prestigious Silver
Wolf Award. The film has sold to broadcasters in Europe, Asia
and America and travelled extensively across the international
festival circuit. He most recently completed producing a six-part
television series for SBS: 'About Men, About Women'. |
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Gareth
Tillson (Cert IV Camera and Lighting)
Gareth has pursued a career in Cinematography since he saw
the light during a shoot at New York Film Academy in 1998.
Drawn to the technical and enamored with the visual he was
terminally committed after enjoying close collaboration with
a particularly brave, creative and inspired Director.
Graduating from AFTRS (MA Cinematography) in 2004 with the
High Achievement in Cinematography Award for the short drama
Blue Poles, Gareth has since established himself as a freelance
Cinematographer in Sydney. He has recently had success with
Saturday Night Newtown, Sunday Morning Enmore - a finalist
in the Australian Project Greenlight 2006 which has since
played in over 20 festivals on 4 continents.
Gareth is excited by new visual challenges and enjoys working
with Directors that push the boundaries in creativity, expression
and storytelling. He sees cinematic "style" as a
function of story and direction that it is the Cinematographers
role to understand and to capture. He will always chose a
good script over an expensive camera package.
Gareth is currently attached to the short comedy The Lonely
Bride and the documentaries Senses Working Overtime and Tibors
Orbs. He is in pre-production for his first feature, L.B.F,
- a stylised exploration into the nature of love and its commercial
and corporate uses. |
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Kim
Mordaunt (Documentary Making)
Kim Mordaunt has been a filmmaker in both drama and documentary
and a teacher for 10 years. With a Communications Degree in
Film from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Diploma
in Acting from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he
started his career as a researcher in the UK for BBC and Channel
4 documentaries. Kim has since produced, directed and shot
several documentaries for television with support from the
Australian Film Commission, Film Finance Corporation, NSW
Film and TV Office and SBS Independent. These have been shown
internationally and won numerous awards. Kim most recently
directed a one-hour drama for SBS titled Jammin’ in
the Middle E and co-wrote, directed and shot Bomb Squad an
ABC documentary in Laos about a bomb disposal team working
on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. |
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Alison
Goodwin De Araujo (Continuity)
Alison has been working as a continuity person in the Film
and Television industry for over 18 years. During this time
she has worked on a number of feature films, including Young
Einstein, Reckless Kelly, Spider and Rose and The Punisher
(1988). She has also worked on a variety of telemovies and
mini-series. Alison currently is in her sixth year working
on the television series All Saints. Over the years she has
worked with a variety of directors and on different styles
of productions which has given her a wealth of knowledge on
the many facets of film making. |
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Tom
Cowan (Directing)
Tom is a pioneer of IMAX films, a double AFI winner and an
Emmy nominated cinematographer. He has directed many shorts
and feature length films including The Dancing Class, The
time of Their Lives and Sweet Dreamers. He has been the DOP
on over 20 feature films including Mouth to Mouth and Winter
Of Our Dreams. Tom directed the highly successful IMAX film
Antarctica which won the Prix du Jury at the Festival de la
Geode - the major award for giant screen films. It is the
most successful investment yet made by the Australian Film
Finance Corporation and has taken over US$100 million at the
box office. Tom’s first digital feature as director
entitled, Orange Love Story was a hit at the Melbourne International
Film Festival in August 2004. Tom also assisted at the birth
of the Australian Film Television and Radio School by shooting
seven films of the first intake of students including Gillian
Armstrong, Chris Noonan, James Rickettson, Graham Shirley
and Philip Noyce. Tom also served on staff at AFTRS in the
Directing Department for three years. |
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Renata
Bliss (Post-Production)
Renata Bliss is a certified Apple accredited editor and started
her film career as the in-house editor for various production
companies including the Sydney Opera House before moving into
making films and documentaries. She was segment director for
the BBC documentary series Backpack TV, she produced the award
winning documentary Painting With Light in a Dark World, and
has directed a slate of short fiction films. |
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Jonathon
Wald (Directing: Visual Storytelling)
Jonathan Wald is a filmmaker, theatre director, script editor,
and teacher. His five short films have played at more than
200 international film festivals; a recent theatre production
was remounted by the Seymour Centre in their 2008 Best Independent
Theatre season. He has taught at AFTRS, MetroScreen, and UCLA,
where he received his MFA in Filmmaking. An external assessor
for the FTO, he edited a script which was a finalist in the
IF Awards for Best Unproduced Screenplay. Jonathan co-founded
FLICS, a group dedicated to saving the Chauvel Cinema, as
well as shoottheplayer.com, which makes single-take music
videos of bands playing live in public. |
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Doug
Suiter (Post-Production)
Doug is an experienced Director and On-air Promo Producer
working at XYZ Networks for the Music Channels Max, Channel
[V], CMC and Club [V]. Doug is a film and television generalist
with a background in Animation, Live Action Directing and
Writing. He is working on developing an Animation Series and
a one off Television Documentary. Doug also provides support
for the Sydney Final Cut Pro community online at www.sydneyfcp.info. |
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Alan
Butterfield (Cinema Projection)
Alan is one of Australia’s most experienced projectionists,
Alan has installed and operated film, video and sound equipment
for many years at the Sydney Opera House, Canberra’s
National Library, Sydney’s State Theatre, AFTRS and
the Chauvel Cinema. |
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Luke
Eve
Luke is one of Australia's most exciting and in-demand young
directors and producers, with a number of his short films
screened, and awarded prizes, in film festivals around the
globe. Luke began his career working as a freelance photographer
and formed his production company, More Sauce in 1999. He
is a graduate from the AFTRS in Producing and has a number
of feature films and television series in development both
as a producer and a director. He was the recipient of an AFC
funded internship with This is That productions in New York
City and his film Australian Summer was the winner of Tropfest
2005. He is currently running More Sauce and working as a
freelance director on high end commercials and high profile
music videos. |
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Adrian
Rostirolla (Post-Production)
In 2004 Adrian graduated with a Masters in Drama Editing at
AFTRS where he edited Birthday Boy, Oscar nominee and winner
of the BAFTA for Best Short Animation.
He went on to edit the SBS short feature “Jamming in
the Middle E” and the feature film “Kokoda”
which secured him a nomination for best editing at the 2006
Inside Film Awards. Two TV commissioned long form documentaries;
“Bomb Harvest” and “The Fibros And The Silvertails”
were screened at the 2007 Sydney Film Festival to enthusiastic
audiences. Bomb Harvest had a cinema release in October 2007.
His second drama feature; “Gabriel” was released
in cinemas by Sony Pictures in November 2007. In late 2007
Adrian completed a four part series for SBS titled “Inspiring
Teachers” and then in 2008 edited another two features
“The Nothing Men” and “Coffin Rock”
which will be released later in the year.
Over the past 12 years Adrian has been editing countless short
films, music videos, and corporate videos. He has been teaching
editing for about 8 years at various educational institutions. |
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Ian
Andrews (Digital Content, Animation)
Ian Andrews is a Sydney based independent film, video and
sound artist who has been practicing since 1981. Beginning
with experimental audio collage, Andrews gradually moved into
the production of film and video, before becoming interested
in electronic music, digital animation and interactive net
art. Much of Andrews' work consists of video/sound collage
utilising a diverse range of visual styles - from animation
to "found" footage. Andrews' works have been exhibited
at various international film and video festivals in Edinburgh,
Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Naples, Catania, Amsterdam, Berlin and
Wellington, as well as numerous events throughout Australia.
Recently Andrews was selected as a participant in the Mobile
Journeys Masterclass and subsequent exhibitions. Andrews continues
to produce short experimental movies for mobile phones. |
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Dean
Francis (Young Filmmakers Workshops, Directing, Screenwriting
and Post-Production)
Dean is a recent AFTRS directing graduate. Dean has directed
many short films and a short feature. His films include Crazy
Richard, Afterlife, Too Little Justice, Boy's Grammar and
most recently Vermin. His short films Boy's Grammar and Transgression
are currently featuring at festivals in New York and San Francisco.
Dean’s film Vermin recently premiered at the prestigious
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. |
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Michael
Chrisoulakis (Young Filmmakers Workshops)
Michaels short suspense film, Interchange has screened at
many festivals worldwide and received awards including; Short
Film Winner‚ at both the Telluride Indie Fest and Key
West Indie Fest, Best Film at the Eyescream Halloween Film
Festival, Best Thriller‚ at the International Festival
of Cinema and Technology. Michael also received the Great
Expectations‚ award at the Sour Grapes Film Festival. |
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Craig
Boreham (Young Filmmakers Workshops)
Craig is an award winning short film director and the Young
Filmmakers coordinator. Craig is the writer and director of
short films, music clips and TVCs which have screened at on
television and in festivals both nationally and internationally.
His short, Transient, was included in the Berlin International
Film Festival. |
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Roger
Nelson (Screenwriting)
Born in Chicago, Roger Nelson studied at the Columbia College
Film School, then moved to Paris where he worked in the French
film industry for fifteen years. Ranging from production assistant
to assistant director to Claude Chabrol and Eduard Molinaro,
then to production design, he began writing screenplays in
French. He later moved to Los Angeles where he studied screenwriting
for three years, developed scripts with independent producers,
optioned two screenplays and coordinated industry speaking
events for the Scriptwriters Network. He now lives in Sydney,
where he continues to write and teach. |
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Monica
Davidson
Monica Davidson is a filmmaker and writer who has never had
a proper job. She is the founder of MAD Endeavours, a company
specialising in business adventures that Make A Difference.
MAD businesses include Twoshotmedia, a production company
that works exclusively in the community and government sector
and Freelance Success, a business that provides business skills
training and support for creative freelancers. Monica is the
author of Freelancing for Australians for Dummies and works
internationally encouraging and promoting creative business.
Monica also loves enjoys spending time with her three kids,
watching movies, drinking champagne and indulging in the gentle
art of karaoke. |
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Teigan
Kollosche
Teigan has over 12 years’ professional experience as
a sound recordist in the film and television industry. She
spent four years on the TV Drama Water Rats and six years'
at the ABC on documentaries. She has been a sound recordist
on numerous films including The Fort, Enemies Closer, The
Visitor (AFI best short film nominee). Teigan is also a Final
Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3 Apple Certified Trainer. She is in
the middle of making a documentary filmed here and in Germany.
As well as teaching at Metroscreen, Teigan teaches camera,
sound and editing at the University of Technology, Sydney
(UTS). |
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Sam
Rebillet
Samantha has directed five shorts and two documentaries, all
which received major prizes at festivals both internationally
and in her homeland of Australia. Prior to directing she worked
in production and as a director's assistant to Alex Proyas
and Mark Joffe, gained many an acting credit, modeled in innumerable
commercials and completed two masters degrees. She has also
taught film at Macquarie Uni, COFA, NIDA and the International
Film School Sydney. She is currently directing a long form
documentary on Aspergers, financed by Screen Australia. |
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Karel
Segers
Karel Segers was Head of Movies at the DBC in London (Sky,
UK), a film buyer for Europe’s largest pay-tv group
Canal Plus http://www.canalplus.fr/
and a movie show host for MTV Europe http://www.mtv.com/
As a producer, Karel has completed three short dramas and
co-produced a documentary http://www.ozzywood.com/film-production/ozzywood-documentary-return-to-port-davey.htm
and a feature film http://www.ozzywood.com/film-production/feature-film-puppy.htm.
He has one feature film in post-production and a handful in
development.
As a story consultant, Karel has worked on story and scripts
for award-winning writers, directors and producers. His work
has resulted in a diverse range of projects finding development
money, production funds, post-production investment, international
sales, film festival acceptance, etc. |
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Mark
Piper
Spanning three decades in the international theatre, film
and television industry, Mark Piper’s award-winning
career has seen him on the initial teams setting up and directing
many of Australia and New Zealand’s best known television
drama programs. Sons and Daughters, Neighbours, Home and Away,
All Saints, Blue Heelers, Always Greener, Halifax F.P, Prisoner,
and A Country Practice are just some of the popular Australian
series that have seen Mark take helm as Director.
Mark was also Director for the pilot episodes of police drama
Water Rats that sold to 179 countries – and his work
on internationally acclaimed shows also extended to his role
as a key Director on Home and Away, screening worldwide to
millions each day. His international directing experience
includes the USA television series Ponderosa [based on the
original Bonanza series] and USA series Beastmaster, German
series Gute Zeiten Schechte Zeiten, and the New Zealand series
Shortland Street and Mercy Peak. Mark was also Executive Producer
on the Vietnamese 26-part drama series Qio Qua Mien Toi. Mark’s
motion picture film credits have been both international and
Australian and include Randal Kleiser’s Blue Lagoon
filmed in Fiji, on which he worked as Assistant Director.
He was also involved in the initial setting up of the film.
Another early career highlight was working on Gillian Armstrong’s
My Brilliant Career as Location Manager, and Bruce Beresford’s
Money Movers as Location Unit manager. |
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Metro Screen
P: +61 02 9356 1818
F: +61 02 9361 5320
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